Sara Weinraub introduces us to the lovely book THE DAY-TO-DAY LIFE OF ALBERT HASTINGS http://weatherspoon.wordpress.com/2009/03/09/ I’m charmed by many of the books Princeton Architectural Press publishes. A recent PAP favorite is The Day-to-Day Life of Albert Hastings. Photographer Kaylynn Devene...

Headlines from DemocracyNow.org, a daily TV/radio news program, hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, airing on over 650 stations, pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the US. Shoe-Throwing Iraqi Journalist Sentenced to 3 Years The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at Presid...

Reading Barton Gellman's "Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency" (Penguin Press, 2008) is yet another reminder that all too often those who were right early on about the massive dangers facing American society under the CheneyBush Administration were ignored, marginalized, reviled, often punished....

The San Francisco Police Department Park Station bombing occurred on February 16, 1970, when a pipe bomb filled with shrapnel detonated on the ledge of a window at the San Francisco Police Department's Golden Gate Park station. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, "Investigators in the early '7...

Children in many parts of England are not getting adequate protection against abuse, the government will admit today after an inquiry into child safeguarding services following the Baby P tragedy. Ed Balls, the children's minister, is expected to accept proposals in a 100-page report from Lord Lamin...

(Pictured: British writer Howard Jacobson) Mindless Jew-hatred conveniently masquerading as mere criticism of Israel is not a new phenomenon by any means, but it's been rising to heretofore unimaginable levels in Britain - to the point where a number of left-wing British Jews have begun publicly mov...

Scott Johnson notes Walter Pincus' whitewashing of the Chas Freeman withdrawal brouhaha: One would never know from the article that Freeman ascribed his withdrawal to "unscrupulous people with a passionate attachment to the views of a political faction in a foreign country," to "a special interest g...

A friend sent me the above cartoon, showing chancellor Angela Merkel reproaching Pope Benedict ("That's a no no, Ratzinger! As far as Holocaust denial is concerned you'll have to set things straight at your end at last, got me?!!") while protesters outside her window are shouting: "Kill the Jews", "...

Author: D-A-R-K EP - Aggitated - Contra-Addiction (DARKEP050) 2009 Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:36 pm (GMT 0) Topic Replies: 0 ID: DARKEP050 Artist: Aggitated Title: Contra-Addiction Label: D-A-R-K Records Genre: Dark Psytrance Date: March 10, 2009 Format: FLAC Length: 48:00 Front Cover: Back Cover: D...

Across Africa, a war is being waged on women - but we are refusing to hear the screams. Over the past fortnight, I have travelled into the secretive shadow world that mutilates millions of African women at the beginning of their lives, and at the end. As girls, they face having their genitalia slice...